Improvement in packing shoe-blacking



Improvement n Packing Shoe-Blacking.

Patented Aug,27,1872.

STATE CARL HEEOLD, oF PITTsBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN PACKING SHOE-BLACKING,l

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 130,917, dated August1872.

Specification describing a certain Improvement in Packing shoelacking,invented by CARL HERoLD, residing at Pittsburg, in the county ofAllegheny and State of Pennsylvaina.

The object of my invention is to provide a cheap and convenient mode ormeans for packing the ordinary pasty shoe-blackin g of coinmerce,which'is now almost universally put up in shallow tin boxes, which,being expensive, comparatively, greatly enhance the price of theblacking thus packed. Flexible pouches of rubber and tinfoil it has beensuggested to use for this purpose; but these devices are open to thesame objection of comparative high cost. My improvement consists iuputting shoe-blacking upon the market packed in the guts of animals,which will add but-a trifle to the cost of the blacking. i

Figure lis an elevation of a package of blacking put up in accordancewith my invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse section thereof.4

The same letters of reference are used in both gures in the designationof identical parts.

The blacking is packed in suitable lengths .great length of time.

of animal guts A, which are then firmly'tied up at both ends, presentingthe appearance of va sausage. Each packageshould be wrapped in paper toprevent the grease or oil upon. the outer surface of the package fromsoiling the hands in handling it." y The blacking thus packed willIretain its moisture, and consequently remain in a proper plasticstateior a In this condition it may be sold by the pound. each purchaser oruser providing himself with a small saucer or other shallow vessel intowhich to empty portions ofthe package from time to time for l

